I was thinking earlier today about doubt and the different roles it can play in our lives. As I recently learned in my Church History class, some of the great theologians of our history have discussed the value of doubt. Pierre Abelard, specifically, said that doubt is part of the process of truly understanding things [...]
Archive for January, 2009
21 Jan
Radical Grace…or the Grace to be Radical
In my studies, I have learned a lot about the cultural and p0litical conditions of the early church. Here these believers were, in the middle of the most powerful empire in the world, attempting to live by the values of a fledgling faith which pushed them to the very borders of the socio-political structure. They risked [...]
20 Jan
The Work of Our Hands
This weekend my husband and I spent a quiet day making wonderful things for our home, sharing in activities like sewing new valances for our kitchen and dining room, baking two loaves of homemade bread, rolling out a fresh batch of homemade pasta, and baking blueberry muffins. We spent the day laughing and talking, and [...]
13 Jan
Winter Quarter
I thought I might take this opportunity to update all of me fantastic blog readers (aka, my family) about what the Winter Quarter entails for me. So far, after a week and a half of classes, I am pretty pleased.
I’m continuing to take Greek–the program requires 3 consecutive quarters of Greek with the same class [...]
8 Jan
God’s Time
Kairos is a Greek word meaning an “(appointed) season or time.” I have often heard it translated as “God’s time,” which is in stark contrast to the other Greek word for time, chronos. You may be familiar with this term because of the word “chronology” and its meaning is similar–a linear time, one that has [...]
6 Jan
The Perfect Gift
There are so many things I want to say, so many things that I want to write about at once. My absence has been in part because of holiday festivities, in part because of a brief health challenge, and in part because of a temporary lack of balance. Suffice it to say, I am hoping [...]
Just a joyful Catholic girl trying to live as simply and consciously and gratefully as possible in this beautiful, amazing world...and bringing as many as possible along for the ride.